Month: December 2021

It was great to be able to once more celebrate student successes in person this year.

Over two evenings, families were invited in to see students awarded for various accolades achieved in the academic year 2020-21. Lower-school students were given prizes for Endeavour, Attainment, and Progress, or the Aude Sapere award for personal achievements. Heads of House awarded these prizes with individual tribute messages.

For the upper school, students received subject specific book prizes (kindly sponsored by Wollens Solicitors). Books were chosen by departments, and inscribed with messages of congratulations to the deserving students. As well as the school awards and trophies, there were also special prizes for progress and Aude Sapere awards for contributions to the school, and these were accompanied with engraved glass keepsakes, handcrafted by Our Glass in Cockington.

Congratulations go to all prize winners, especially considering they managed to maintain such high standards of achievement through a year of disrupted schooling.

November’s Autumn concert truly was a celebration of all the fantastic music making that happens at TBGS.  It was a great relief to put on our first concert in two years and the students really made the most of the opportunity.

The evening saw an eclectic mix of musical styles from students from every year group in the school, from the dramatic opening of the Drumming Group to the refined classicism of the Flute Choir.  Other highlights included energetic sets from the Year 11 and Jazz Bands and a debut performance by the Year 8 band.

Of particular note this year was the number of self-composed performances from the likes of Oscar Garbett, Tom Grogan and Zen Fyre Collective.

The evening ended with all of the instrumentalists coming together for a powerful performance of Prince’s “Purple Rain,” sung soulfully by Daisy Haslam-Ivens.

An evening of superb entertainment was dedicated to Sue Durant, until recently our brass teacher, who sadly passed away recently.